GB News viewers as likely as ITV News viewers to support the Lib Dems
All the caveats about this only being one poll apply, of course. Though the sample sizes for the cross-tabs are very chunky. … Read the full post »
Opinion polls
Read below my posts about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys.
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To find out more about how political polls work, check out my book Polling UnPacked: the history, uses and abuses of political opinion polls or read my explanation of why 1,000 samples are enough to judge the mood of a nation.
For a full database of voting intention polls since their birth in the UK in 1943, see PollBase, the largest collection of voting intention polls.
Even 2019 Conservative voters are not keen on Suella Braverman
Striking approval ratings from Savanta for Conservative Home Secretary, Suella Braverman. … Read the full post »
Three quarters of people think government spending too much time on ‘woke’ issues
73% of people agree the Government spends too much time talking about ‘woke’ issues according to a new poll from WeThink. … Read the full post »
6 reasons to read Polling UnPacked: the history, uses and abuses of political polling
1. There’s nothing else like it. 2. It’s “essential reading” says The Sunday Times. 3. It’ll make you smarter… … Read the full post »
An important change in polling over immigration
As Will Jennings has spotted, since 2021 we’ve entered a new period of Labour being consistently rated better than the Conservatives on immigration. … Read the full post »
More reasons to doubt that the don’t knows will rescue the Conservatives
In the latest The Week in Polls I touched on how risky it is to think of those who answer voting intention questions from pollsters with ‘don’t know’ as an easy route back to popularity for the Conservatives. … Read the full post »
Five times the polls were wrong… but why you should still pay attention to them
On Times Radio I talked about five political polling disasters, what we can learn from them and why we should still pay attention to polls. … Read the full post »
Who do people think a Labour government would make life better for?
YouGov asking, “If Labour were to win the next election, what impact, if any, do you think this would have on the day to day lives of each of the following groups over the next few years?” … Read the full post »
Are the Conservatives on 11% in Mid Bedfordshire?
Let’s look at what The Sun has said internal Conservative polling says about the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary by-election. … Read the full post »
Two more Parliamentary by-election polls
JL Partners have two Parliamentary by-election opinion polls out this week, one in London and one in Yorkshire. … Read the full post »